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The requests library is arguably the mostly widely used HTTP library for Python. However, what I believe most of its users are not aware of is that its current stable version happily accepts responses whose length is less than what is given in the Content-Length header. If you are not careful enough to check this by yourself, you may end up using corrupted data without even noticing. I have witnessed this first-hand, which is the reason for the present blog post. Let’s see why the current requests version does not do this checking (spoiler: it is a feature, not a bug) and how to check this manually in your scripts.Read More